The Rocky Horror Glee Episode

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The Rocky Horror Glee episode was an awesome flashback and more importantly, a tribute to the original 1975 musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  The original starred Tim Curry and became a cult midnight showing classic.  Barry Bostwick and Meatloaf were also in it and had cameo’s in tonight’s episode.

GLEE: Chris Colfer behind the scenes in "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" episode of GLEE airing Tuesday, Oct. 26

Remakes & tributes are a touchy genre in and of themselves.  If you take them too seriously, you set yourself up for some failed expectations.  Then again, sometimes remakes never quite fill that emotional corner of your mind that your memories have populated from the original, no matter what.  But the Rocky Horror Glee episode was a tribute of fun-spun songs that hit those very familiar feelings and it made for a fast and enjoyable sixty minutes of memories, populated with a wee bit of modernization that felt right on mark.  Having not seen the original in quite some time, I hit the episode in somewhat of a fresh perspective.

Additionally, I’ve never watched an episode of Glee and I’m not caught up in the story or issues with the ongoing plot if there is one.  Fox successfully pulled me in with teasers of what they were going to do and for me, a veteran of many a midnight showing from my youth, I think it paid off with no disappointment.

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